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Deborah Hoffman

Deborah Hoffman is an attorney and freelance translator. She was the recipient of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Grant for her translations from Deti Gulaga, which were recently published by Slavica under the title The Littlest Enemies. Her translations have appeared in the Toronto Slavic Quarterly, The Literary Review, and Words Without Borders. She was a Fellow for the American Literary Translators Association Conference. She lives in Ohio with her husband and three children.

Black Horse with a White Eye
Chtenia: Summer 2012

Author: Vladimir Sorokin
Translator: Deborah Hoffman
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Peter at the Dacha
Chtenia: Summer 2010

Author: Leonid Andreyev
Translator: Deborah Hoffman
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The Lizard
Chtenia: Fall 2009

Author: Maria Galina
Translator: Deborah Hoffman
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Cultural Clones
Russian Life: May/June 2009
Be it in films, literature, television, music or art, Russia has a long tradition of cloning western (and eastern) cultural icons and making them its own. We survey several of the more interesting and recent instances, from Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh, to The Wheel of Fortune and Big Brother.
Author: Anna Dymkovets
Translator: Deborah Hoffman
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Dead Souls for Two Metronomes
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2009
From Gogol's work have arisen some truly great works of music. We look at the composers he influenced and the music they have offered.
Author: Ilya Ovchinnikov
Translator: Deborah Hoffman
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In Search of Bards
Russian Life: Jan/Feb 2009
To paraphrase Pushkin, "In Russia, a bard is much more than a bard." We look back at the bardic tradition (singer-songwriters) in Russian culture and find that not all is what it seems. Or, to paraphrase Pushkin again, "In Russia, a bard is often less than a bard."
Author: Ilya Ovchinnikov
Translator: Deborah Hoffman
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Children of the Gulag
Russian Life: Nov/Dec 2007
Millions of adults suffered in the horror that was the Gulag. But what of the children they left behind? What became of them? How did they survive the loss of parents and loved ones?
Author: Deborah Hoffman
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